From the Peace Alliance:

On May 6th, the friday before Mother's Day, join members of your community and take homemade pies to your local Congressional offices with downloaded national budget pie charts showing the tiny slice that represents the portion of the US federal budget requested for the Department of Peace.

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Call your local newspapers and television stations and send them a press release (we will provide a template for you). Ask them to come and take pictures of local teams delivering the pies with the banners at the local offices. Bring your children, along with pictures they've made about how they see peace, and make it a fun and festive event! You won't even have to set up a meeting, just pop by. This is a great way to get attention for a very important endeavor. Copies of sample press releases will be on the web site soon along with the budget pie charts.

Click here to learn more about our May 6th campaign.

PRESS RELEASE!

Click here for pie recipes!

The proposed Department of Peace budget is equivalent to 2% of whatever the current Department of Defense budget is (currently around $10 billion). It is not meant to come out of the Department of Defense budget.

Please note: Very often, Social Security would not be put into a federal budget chart because it is a separate tax. This would make the other areas in the chart a significantly higher percentage, including the military.

Mother's Day Proclamation
by Julia Ward Howe

"Arise all women who have hearts, say firmly: Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. Disarm! Disarm! In the name of womanhood and of humanity; take counsel with each other as the means whereby the great human family can live in peace; promote the alliance of the different nationalities, amicable settlement of international questions, and great and general interests of peace." Click here to read the full text.